Open Collective Update—June 2020
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Close to $2Million raised for COVID-19, plus lots of new features 😍
Collectives Responding to Covid-19
We've been humbled and impressed by the 270 groups actively using Open Collective for COVID relief efforts. Together, they've raised close to 2 million USD to support their causes.
Open Collective and our Non Profit sister organizations have waived 100% of our fees on those funds as our contribution to the effort. 🙏
Platform Updates
Customize Page SectionsReorder and turn on and off every section on your Collective page:
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Optional default tier
We hear you! To opt out of the default 'donation' tier, go to settings > tiers > untick 'enable custom contributions'.
Emoji reactions
Express yourself on updates, conversations and expenses!
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Expense comments made private
We've heard you some more! Now only visible to the submitter and admins, due to often containing confidential payment information.
More improvements:
- Hover over 'estimated annual budget' to see a breakdown of monthly recurring and total received contributions.
- Fiscal hosts can now turn off Paypal as a payout option.
- Gift cards can be limited to Collectives with a specific tag.As always, you can see the full changelog here.
Open Call to Developers:
Modulo is looking for a technical partner to support families impacted by school closures.
When schools closed in early March, Eric Ries and Manisha Snoyer set up a hotline to support families impacted by School Closures. They've helped 100k families impacted by school closures. Modulo has recently joined Open Collective Foundation and they are looking for a developer who can join them to support and inspire the millions of families who will be homeschooling in the fall. If interested, please contact manisha@modulo.app
See: https://schoolclosures.org/ or https://www.modulo.app/.
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News & Inspiration
- Collectives are doing important work for #BlackLivesMatter, like West Brooklyn Waterfront Mutual Aid and Bushwick Ayuda Mutua.
- UPLIFT! by FOSS Responders raised over $100k for projects affected by the pandemic.
- Alyssa interviews Zcoin about sustaining their work on privacy on the blockchain. See their Collective launch announcement here.
- Open Source Initiative is offering new courses about Open Source Technology Management.
Tweets that make us proud
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Monthly Leaderboard
Top Financial Contributors
Latacora $25,000
Eutopia Foundation $25,000
Chrome $24,200
Indeed $10,000
Gatsby $9,750
Github $9,000
Infotrax Systems $7,188
Airbnb $6,837
Two Sigma $3,600
Clay Global $3,450Top Collectives
by new backers
Bushwick Ayuda Mutua +160
East Bronx Dems +112
West Brooklyn Waterfront +111
Top New Collectives
by donations
Keeling Mutual Aid $5,000
Les Enfants du Monde $992
RomeJS $862
Got questions or news to share? We'd love to hear from you!
The Open Collective Team